Schlagwort: ‘Government Supervision’

On 27th March, the Health Commission was officially founded, which is directed by Xiaowei Ma. The official name on the website has been changed from “National Health and Family Planning Commission” to “National Health Commission”. (Source: The Beijing News)

Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security published the recommended sickness catalog for the payment of health insurance on the basis of sickness categories. 130 kinds of sicknesses are included in the catalog. As requested, at least 100 sicknesses should be confirmed for the new payment method from place to place. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security also emphasized that unreasonable medical payment increases should be controlled to make sure the personal expenditure will not increase. (Source: Beijing Youth Daily)

On 9th February, the CFDA published the supervision and management method of drug online sale and asked for opinions. The method shows that drug online sales have developed very quickly. However, the supervision laws and regulations are relatively legging behind, so that there are new problems in the supervision link. The CFDA published this method to improve the supervision and ask for opinions. It is required in the method that drug online sales should be in accordance with offline sales; responsibilities should be clarified; based on internet technology of the third-party platform, using internet to supervise internet; “ordering online and delivered offline” is encouraged. (Source: VCBEAT)

Recently, Anhui Health and the Family Planning Commission published the trial approach of officers at medication institutions that accepted commercial bribes. It is clarified that officers at medication institutions should get punishments, as a dismissal and the withdrawal of their licenses, when they either ask for or accept commercial bribes for an accumulative total of 5000 RMB. Meanwhile during the investigation period, the officers should not be transferred to new working positions. The new approach will come into effect on 1st January, 2018.

The news from the Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security shows that until the end of September 2017, all national public hospitals cancelled the drug markup. So far, the hierarchical medication system is fundamentally founded. Medical resources are distributed based on population. 80% of the people can reach the closest medication station within 15 mins. The service of family doctor already covers 430 million people. (Source: People’s Daily)

In July 2017, the Jiangxi province published the development plan of health information for the 13th Five Year. The plan clearly highlighted the big data industry for healthcare. Until 2020, a health information platform should be created at the level of provinces, cities and countries; databases of population information, electronic health documents and patient records within the province should be created, so that the health big data center for Jiangxi can be built. (Source: Jiangnan City News)

The reformation scheme of the State Council institutions was published on 13.03.2018. It was mentioned in the scheme that the National Market Supervision Administration will be established as a subordinate institution of the State Council. Furthermore, concerning the particularity of drug supervision, the National Drug Supervision Administration will be independently established, which will be directed by the National Market Supervision Administration. The market supervision will be directed hierarchically. The drug supervision institutions will be set only to the provincial level. The supervision of drug distribution and drug sales will be operated by the supervision administrations at the city and country level. The CFDA will not be kept in the reformation. (Source: people.cn)

On 22nd November, the CFDA published an announcement about the inspection of fake subordinations of licensed pharmacists in pharmaceutical distributors. It is known that the FDA in Jilin and some other provinces found 65 licensed pharmacists with fake subordinations. The FDAs have registered the information of those pharmacists in the management information system of national licensed pharmacists. The provincial registration institution of licensed pharmacists will capture and de-register their certificate and make them public. (Source: 21st Century Pharmacy)

To safeguard the pharmaceutical market order, one should avoid that expired drugs flow into the market and endanger the medication safety. The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation Tianjin organized that the pharmaceutical drug retailers start the recycling of expired drugs. On 29th November 2017, the long-term basis recycling work of expired drugs officially started. For the first batch, 10 pharmacies became pilot stations. (Source: China Network Finance)

CFDA recently publishes the supervision and management regulation for drug retailing online (exposure draft) and asks for opinions from the public. The exposure draft emphasizes that pharmacies online should neither sell prescription drugs, nor exhibit information of them. Licensed pharmacists are also necessary for pharmacies online. These are also the latest management regulation for pharmacies online, which will further enhance the distribution environment of drug retailing online and maintain the medication safety. (Source: Souhu)